33 Juicing Recipes for Weight Loss - Part II - The Health Benefits of Juicing

There’s a good reason why more and more health buffs are advocating for juicing as a healthy way of losing weight. It’s ironic that we’re a food-fixated nation that eats a lot of food but most of the food we eat don’t have the right amount of the vitamins that our body requires or any kind of nutrients whatsoever. With juicing, you can fill your dietary fiber needs, get a full range of vitamins from fruits and vegetables, and get much needed minerals as well, provided you know your ingredients well.

A lot of people who go into juicing don’t just want to lose weight. They also want to combat the sluggishness they feel every day, the mood swings that they inexplicably experience, and even sexual dysfunction that findings are now relating to malnutrition. In Supersize Me, Morgan Spurlock claimed he was consuming as much as 5 000 kcal a day but despite the plentiful diet he suffered from a fatty liver, a cholesterol level of 230, mood swings, and severe malnutrition. It just goes to show that when it comes to food and diet, it’s always quality over quantity.

But what makes juicing a good addition to your diet and daily intake? An effective weight program isn’t just about losing weight but it’s also about getting the nutrition that you need and keeping the weight off in the long run. You shouldn’t think of losing weight as being rail thin. Instead, your goal should be a fit and tone body that’s well-nourished and healthy. And this is why juicing fits the bill as a great foundation for your everyday diet and as a gateway to weight loss.

Knowing the right ingredients or combination of ingredients is the key to a great juicing diet. With the right juices, you can get your required fiber intake of 25 grams a day for women and 38 grams a day for men. You can also get the vitamins and minerals that your body needs. Potassium, which you can get from bananas, are particularly essential because it helps control the electrical activities of the heart, it maintains normal body growth, and it plays a role in the break down and the use of carbohydrates. Ask yourself, when was the last time you had a banana? Vitamin C is also one of the essentials because of its role in iron absorption, in strengthening blood vessels, and its function as an antioxidant.

Because you ingest these ingredients in liquid form, your body can digest and absorb them faster. As juice, these vitamins and minerals are also in a more concentrated form which means that you get more of them in your body when you drink raw juice. Not a lot of people know that 95% of the vitamins and enzymes that we need are found in the juices of raw fruits and vegetables. You would have to eat two pounds of carrots to get the nutritional equivalent of a 16 oz glass of carrot juice. And if you’re not big on fruits and vegetables, it’s a great way to get them into your body in one delicious and healthy concoction.


This is a sample from the book 33 Juicing Recipes for Weight Loss--to get the complete recipes you can get the book here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NB0RD8I